Yes, there are a lot of nice people in Mississippi, but Roy Nicholson, Chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party, isn’t one of them. Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Nicholson went ballistic in a truly southern manner: “With its 5-4 ruling upholding Obamacare the US Supreme Court has joined…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Wow. This one takes me back. ‘New boy in town,’ that pretty much says it. Lots of hair, not many inhibitions.” “Okay, this is from my first race for citywide comptroller. Obviously, I had found my voice. I never looked back, and neither have the voters.” “New York, 1998, Givenchy….
More on the ACA
Over at Salon, Paul Campos advances the argument, using Scalia’s dissent to the Court’s decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, that Roberts made a last-minute switch. He doesn’t follow David Bernstein in making dark accusations regarding “unidentified circles” that supposedly leaned on Roberts to come around or the “heat” supposedly applied by President…
Alan Vanneman, Percipience Personified
Mere hours ago, I wrote, of Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia’s furious, even frumious, dissent in Arizona v. United States, “One can even hope—and this is probably nonsense, and will probably be exposed as nonsense at 10 o’clock this morning—that his fulmination was sparked in part by frustration over his brethren’s refusal to overturn the…
The Washington Post surprises me
Since I’ve gone out of my way to make fun of the Washington Post on numerous occasions, I guess it’s only right for me to provide a little praise when praise is due. Well, here’s some praise: the Post’s recent editorial on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s gross and unseemly posturing was spot on. Although…
Fast and Furious and Phony
Over at Fortune, a magazine that I used to take more seriously than I do now, Katherine Eban has a fantastic takedown of the Fast and Furious “scandal,” giving me more proof than I could have imagined that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cal) and the rest of the Republican wolfpack are in fact entirely without principle….
What about the severed heads, Nino? You forgot the severed heads!
Yes, Antonine “Don’t worry, I’m still an asshole” Scalia is, well, still an asshole. In his furious, and, therefore, terribly amusing, dissent in the Supreme Court’s recent decision, Arizona v. United States, overturning most but not all of Arizona’s noxious “illegal immigrants ain’t people” law, El Nino fulminated that Arizona’s citizens “feel themselves under siege…
Jason Moran—“Thelonious”
Monk’s famous one-note theme, hard to find on YouTube because the search engine just thinks you mean “Thelonious Monk”. Spring 2009, Minneapolis, Whole Music Club. Posted by wholemusicclub
DC sucks, says geezer
DC sucks, says geezer Andrew Ferguson, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, so much of a geezer, in fact, that he even has a white moustache to prove it. Ferguson holds forth on Reason TV with “Kennedy,”* seated on the lawn of his “beautiful McMansion” (Kennedy’s term), rapping about how the DC economy is largely…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “The Story of Your Life, fine. The Story of Our Life, not so good.” “Well, for one thing, it’s totally not going to fit on the shelf.” “Jeffrey, if you’re writing about me, I can tell you right now I’ll be editing that thing with a scythe.” “It’s your fucking book…